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Filed Under: Drug War, Built for Television Seven deputies entered a Kansas family’s home and searched it for more than two hours. What sent them there was stranger than anything they found. It was a chilly April morning in Leawood, Kansas, an affluent suburb of Kansas City, when seven Johnson County sheriff’s deputies converged on... Continue Reading →
Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome is real, but the latest “scromiting” panic outruns the CDC data behind it. Pot Culture Magazine examines a new CHS diagnosis code, 199,565 emergency visits, a combined 15-to-24 age group, and the difference between a documented medical burden and an alarmist headline that turns hospital records into a teen weed emergency.
Cannabis Lies Vol. 14 dismantles the fentanyl-laced weed rumor with New York public-health guidance, DEA fentanyl data, CDC overdose statistics, and the Connecticut case often used to inflate the panic. The article separates real fentanyl risks from unsupported cannabis scare tactics and shows how prohibition turns an opioid crisis into a marijuana myth.
Pew’s May 26, 2026 report says only 11 percent of U.S. adults want marijuana illegal in all cases. Pot Culture Magazine examines what that means for cannabis legalization, federal marijuana law, employment testing, immigration policy, banking barriers, and the drug war machinery still protecting prohibition after the public moved on.
Louisiana says HB 568 protects schools. Critics see something older beneath the language: another expansion of marijuana enforcement through invisible school-zone boundaries. As lawmakers rebuild cannabis penalties around geography and fear, the state’s long relationship with punishment politics comes roaring back into view.
The lazy stoner stereotype was never science. Cannabis can impair performance, and heavy use can cause real problems, but global data, workplace research, motivation studies, and impairment science do not support treating every cannabis user as lazy, unsafe, or broken. Cannabis Lies Vol. 12 separates real risk from recycled prohibition propaganda.